Auto Industry News

As usual, I won’t bore you with every single detail on how June’s auto sales went. Instead, I’ll touch on some of the best, and some of the worst. If you don’t see it here, then you can safely assume that brand falls somewhere in between. To start off with, let’s take a look at [...]

Shouldn’t that be highlights, you ask?  No, it most certainly should not, when you notice that every single major automaker suffered a drop in sales in April.  There’s no “best” and “worst” here.  Just Bad, worse, and worst.  So, who did just “bad” in April?  Let’s take a look-see.
Bad Brands

Subaru –6.69% : All things considered, [...]

Highlights?  Did I just say highlights?  Alright, here’s the best of the best in automotive sales for December of 2008:
Mini – up 0.1%
…. crickets chirping……
Yep, Mini sold 4 more cars in December 2008 than they did in 2007.  Quite an accomplishment, when you consider how the rest of the automotive world fared.  I won’t bore [...]

Down, down down.  That sums up August for nearly every major automaker.  Double digit losses across the board were the norm – though some escaped with “only” single digit drops.  The domestic losses were epic in some cases.  Let’s see the highlights:
The biggest losers

Cadillac -21%
Chevy -19%
Chrysler -44%
Dodge -25%
Ford -26%
Jeep -44%
Hummer -62%
Mercury -32%
Mitsubishi -29%
Pontiac -38%
Porche -44%
Saab [...]